Christian Nationalists: lying is good, if it’s to win elections

Lying is good, and enjoying lying is good:

I’ve written about this so many times I’ve lost track of it. It’s core to the fundamentalist movement, now to the Christian Fascists and Nationalists.

If it serves them, then it serves the agenda. If it serves the agenda, then it serves God, which means it is serving – by definition – Good, which means it is also good.

Most of them then carry it step further, like so:

And since God is also truth, then if it serves God, it is also true, regardless of how false the mere physical world might say it is. It is Godly, so it is truth, as God is definitionally the truth.

So for one of them to just come out and say “yeah, we’re lying, but that’s good,” leaving out the last step of declaring lies to be truth – that’s an interesting new layer of cynicism and power politics.

I hope it’s a sign that this particular layered sophistry is starting to break down.

But that’s just a hope.

45 days remain.

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things i noticed while biking lately

Couple of things I’ve noticed the couple of weeks while biking places – biking is my primary form of transit:

• I am biking near where I live, up my terrible hill. There is someone else on the road with me that I do not know. They are also on a bike. This is new.
  
  
• Stopped at an intersection crossing Bothell Way, a five-lane divided highway with turn lane. To my right is a car. But behind me is not a car, but someone else on a bike. I do not know them. This is also new.
  
  
• Stopped at another intersection, also near Bothell Way, at a major car-road crossing. There is a person behind me I do not know. They are on a bike. As the light begins to turn, a person crosses the intersection – at the last minute, but safely. They are also on a bike.
  
  
• Stopped at a three-way intersection in Lake Forest Park, also near Bothell Way, on a weekday. There are people at each stop sign. All of them are on bikes. There are four of us.
  
  There are no cars at the intersection.
  
  That, in particular, is new.

These are by no means the only bikes I’ve seen, I see people on bikes a lot. There are also lots and lots of cars around – more than bikes, by an order of magnitude or two.

But there really do seem to be a lot more bikes lately, and I don’t know how much of that is me noticing them more, and how much is actual MOAR BIKES, but I hope it’s the latter, because bike activism is climate activism, and it would be nice to see it having some real life effects.

I’ve been riding bikes for a while.

This feels new. And I like it.

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